Caregiver, Caretaker: From Dysfunctional to Authentic Service in Nursing

by Caryn L. Summers

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1881394336
• ISBN13: 9781881394334
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Commune-a-Key Pub.
• Length: 207 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Raw Truth about Nurses and the Healthcare System

This is the most honest book I've read about the dysfunction that has run rampant in the healthcare system, resulting in a dangerous exodus of talented nurses out of the profession. I've been a hospital nurse for over 30 years and always wondered why hospital administrators refused to acknowledge assertive, creative and skilled nurses and gave all the kudos to dependently compliant, less creative and less skilled nurses. Now I've got the answer to my lingering question...fostering codependency and a dysfunctional workplace is more profitable in a closed system like the healthcare system. I now know why I felt so frustrated, fatigued and powerless as a nurse trying to maintain assertive, self-respect in a workplace permeated with addiction, codependency, dysfunctional game-playing and the coercive power ploys of management. The healthier I got as a person, the more difficult...even impossible it was to remain in the profession. If scholars want to look at the real causes behind our nursing shortage crisis, they'd find many of the answers in this book...even though it was written in 1992. Thank you Ms. Summers for validating my feelings and experiences as a nurse seeking liberation from an oppressive and toxic working environment